Rules of good conduct? I acted in good faith. I did not realise how much trouble it would cause. I figured if there really was an issue, then good, and if there wasn't the notices could easily be removed (had somebody asked, I would've done it myself).
Regardless of whether or not there are copyright issues with tokipona:, I believed there were and I put up copyvio notices.
And I strongly object to you calling my actions vandalism - I added copyvio notices to pages where I suspected copyright violations.
Others have suggested I used a bot, the simple fact is I did it manually. I'm too stupid to write a bot, though I could probably learn.
As I said before, I am truly sorry for the time I have wasted and the bad feelings I have caused.
--node
On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 06:01:30 +0200, Jens Ropers ropers@ropersonline.com wrote:
I clearly support a TEMPORARY ban.
Rationale: This is a significant breach of rules of good conduct. Even if we're not a higher moral authority or in any way "teachers" over the next guy (and really, we're not), a ban will be better for Node, because it will give him the opportunity to return to this community afterwards in a way that makes it easy for everyone to accept that he has "served his time" and can then be welcomed back without anyone continuing to hold a grudge. No penalty at all would lead to a situation where people would continue to hold a grudge, and maybe not entirely without some justification.
I have left a note about this to Sonjaaa, who is also a WP contributor on the English Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Sonjaaa#Toki_Pona_vandalism
I would imagine that she should be able to clarify the copyright situation.
-- ropers [[en:User:Ropers]] www.ropersonline.com
On 22 Sep 2004, at 05:05, Tim Starling wrote:
Angela_ wrote:
I've just reverted over 200 edits on the toki pona Wikipedia. Someone apparently feels the language is copyrighted so decided to replace every page, including user pages and the main page, with a copyright violation notice, presumably with the use of a bot. I've reverted these, although unfortunately the "bot rollback" failed on later pages so recent changes is a mess. I haven't deleted anything, so if people want to see the pages, such as "copyviopedia" this person created they can still do so.
Edits were performed anonymously with the IP address 24.251.242.236 . The corresponding hostname is ip24-251-242-236.ph.ph.cox.net.
On the English Wikipedia:
mysql> select distinct rc_user_text from recentchanges where rc_ip='24.251.242.236'; +--------------+ | rc_user_text | +--------------+ | Node ue | +--------------+
I suggest a temporary ban from all projects effective immediately.
-- Tim Starling
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